FIRST TIME WATCHING: The Last of Us S1E7!!

Take on me is a big song for part 2 as well! I love that they used it here.

Cory Silver

The song that plays on the carousel is “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure. So damn thematic.

Andrew Avery

Don't know if it's been mentioned, but your conducting during the intro actually helps me to sync!

LightsCameraJake

Natalie made me so stressed watching this, and ive seen this episode already xD

lafatte24

Attack on Titan is a huge long investment but I feel like the payoff is so worth it when you finally see the big picture.

Mastervodo

Yes!

T T T

Dont worry Nat! Once this season is over and you've cried your eyes out. You can watch Ted Lasso s3 to warm your heart!

Heliastein

There's a lot of parallels with Euphoria in this episode. Great reaction!

Alan Felicia

Also, No "Jump Scare" in the next episode! Very intense and perhaps my favorite episode of the season. LOL! Playing the sequence in the Video Game was a bit intense as well when I first played.

Alan Felicia

Great, great reaction by Nat! Absolute trooper for continuing, this show is definitely an emotional roller coaster ride! Fun fact: early in the episode, the camera shows briefly the Walkman & a couple of cassettes of AHA (Canadian 80s POP band) & Etta James = song featured at escalator is AHA's hit song "Take On Me" and dance scene between Elle & Riley is Etta James "I Got You Babe".

Baggie Mark

In the UK I watch it via SKY, and it seems to run at a different speed to Nat's version via HBO. I have to play Nat at 1.05 speed to try and sync them up, then every so often I still have to pause Nat. I had the same problem with Game of Thrones and The House of the Dragon.

Baggie Mark

Hi Bathu, I think its the anticipation that scares Nat the most, so many times she is pulling the earpiece out because she thinks something is going to happen but nothing does.. I think she has ben scared by the early episodes..

alejandro valles

this episode broke my heart, bella ramsey and storm reid had so much chemistry

TGrimace

Plus, the music cues are a giant hint when something is about to happen. Since you have subtitles on, you can relax until the subtitle comes up that says "Ominous music plays"

Julia

I saw so many spoilers online before watching this and saw stills of the Halloween store when I knew it happened but I was still on edge the whole time. This episode is so sad bc you know Riley turned and Ellie had to kill her, and then thinking back about the video game her and Joel saw...absolutely breaks my heart. I hope Joel gets to know about Riley eventually :(

Daniel Vezina

Sorry, but there's not way she figured out that many finish him by herself in a couple of days.

Anomaly

Yeaahh, this HBO stuff has been super annoying to deal with. I'm in Canada so we have Crave over here, and as long as I've been watching I've been getting the ads but NOT the recaps. Makes it real weird to try to sync up

PrayTellCaesar

I just sync up with the hbo logo since I'm from aus and we don't have hbo here 😅

Sam Kimpton

I only provided that little spoiler because Nat said she would feel better knowing some things ahead of time. :)

jamie jones

That would be better. The stream i use starts at the hbo title

Dante

Like others have said it's very easy to sync up just by using the scene changes in the blurred image so don't worry about it Nat!

Nick James

no spoil pls

John

Look at watching this show as therapy. You know a jump scare is coming, but it's not here yet, so enjoy the nice moments while they last.

Sam Kimpton

Regarding the timestamps, I personally don't even use them to sync up the video. Even though the picture-in-picture video is blurred, there's still enough info there (lighting/color changes) to sync things really well. I think you might like the next episode. While it's a bit creepy, there aren't any zombies. :)

Myles Away

I was rollerblading through the streets of Singapore with my 60 second shock protected CD Walkman. It was like straight outta the movie Hackers haha

Emilie Mish

This is true but also worth warning that Ep 8 is easily the creepiest and most disturbing of the season so mentally prepare for that.

Mike Hell

Very nice reaction, Nat. This episode was almost a shot-for-shot remake of the game DLC titled, of course, Left Behind. And like others have mentioned, you don't need to get yourself worked up by the infected because they've been reduced by like 90% vs the game. It's more about the experience of these 2 people surviving in this dystopian world and the bond that forms. And if it will ease your watching ability, Ep 8 has no infected.

Bathu

I do have to laugh at how worked up Natalie gets over the potential of infected, meanwhile I've seen a decent amount of people complain about how little the infected are in the show. add on top of all that, the last time we saw infected before this episode (ep5) she welcomed them to come kill Kathleen. I do have to say that the anxiety is much lower than the 1st 2 episodes. I felt bad watching her reactions in the 1st 2. i could feel her stress through my monitor

Baggie Mark

Great choice of top today.. "Go To Therapy" 😆 🤣 maybe a sponsorship deal on the cards after this series??

Jason Dolan

Not enough Nat to go around? Somebody get her to the INFINITY POOL!

Foggy

i was gonna say the same thing. this isn't a jumpscare kinda show, they do like to build suspense though lol

Erik Stevenson

It's truly wild that it has the best library of content (IMO) of any of the streamers and the absolute worst app/interface. Half the time mine just stops partway through an episode and I have to exit the app and re-enter to keep watching. Chaotic for watch-alongs haha.

Arronax06

About knowing when something scary happens, so far, like you said, I don't remember a single jump scare in the show, I know that doesn't mean there won't be any in the future, but I don't think it's the type of show that uses jump scares. Each time there was an infected, they showed it to us before the characters on the show could see it/them :) . Still a lot of emotional scenes that hit like a truck though :)

Kaisel

Same! I have gotten weirdly good at it at this point

Natalie Gold

YAY! I love conducting haha

Natalie Gold

I'll talk to my assistant about unblurring the HBO title card/beginning of the Last of Us intro sequence

Natalie Gold

I'm jealous haha

Myles Away

You never had a shock resistant CD Walkman? I could run with mine and the CD wouldn’t skip

Andy

I've never used your on-screen timer for syncup lool, I always use the blurred screen and lighting changes on it to sync up

Joey Johansen

I just sync to the HBO logo, it's easy even with the blur that's added in the reaction video. No need to stress over this, syncing is as easy as the viewer getting to a standard part in the show, like the logo that plays, then just un-pause when the reaction reaches that point.

Maddie

Another reaction patreon i watch sometimes will have their show paused at an easy point to sync, and ask the viewer to pause the reaction, and hit unpause when their video gets to that same point i.e. "you will pause this video and when the HBO logo fades completely to black press unpause. Pause Now" Maybe that can help sync things up easily across different platforms.

Brian

Well, it always comes back to the first episode with Ellie: "80's means Danger." So first you have Take On Me on the escalator, then Just Like Heaven on the Carousel. Though the last song is Etta James from 1968, but still, 😁

Joe Blankenship

The content warning is good too.

Danishprince

HBO sucks ass in general, not your fault

Gwyn

I never get ads nor previously on, but using the hbo title card works to get in sync

Justin Schuller

Don't stress too much on the issues with HBO playing different (or no) ads for different people. It's pretty easy to get synced up with you. I actually use you "conducting" the intro song as a way to tell if I'm close!

Myoclonic Jerk

I'm getting a different "previously on" then you are, so it's impossible to sync. Would it be possible to postpone the blur until the actual start of the show?

Marty McGee

Yeah I always use picture to sync up. Specifically cuts. Timers are always different for some reason. HBO is always so difficult because it buffers a lot more than other services for me. Always re-syncing it.

Baggie Mark

Another great reaction Nat. I think your spooking yourself now lol, I loved the morse code ah, ah ahhh, ah ah you cried out when they found the dead body in the hallway at the start of the episode 🤣 😅

Haughtbreaker Nic

I don't think fire would have helped in sanitation. That thread has been sitting in a drawer for 20 years soaking up the same germs.

Jeff K

I do similar but I pause immediately when the logo has completely faded to black, and then start up. It’s been pretty well synced every time.

Zach Zombie

I found using the HBO title screen the easiest way to sync up. I pause on its brightest point and wait for you to get through the ads and previously on then press and its usually a spot on sync.

Rey

Oh smart you should be able to.onock out tlou pretty easily now, and hbo is the hardest app to sync too espically when they prompt me to skip the title seqeunce as im trying sync up with you

valchu

wait... u r onto something🤔

Joe Blankenship

If you waited longer, could've had Cordyceptember.

jamie jones

Mushroom monday lol

Darryl Low

he he Mushroom Monday 😂 I'm guessing we are getting Funghi Friday this week too 🤣 Hope you had an awesome weekend Nat. Looking forward to watching all the good stuff you have for us this week 😊 This episode was based on additional content that came out 8 months after the game. I always preferred the CD walkman as I found that after only a few weeks the cassette one would chew up my tapes 😄 If you remember Nat, Ellie came across a broken Mortal Kombat arcade machine in episode 3 and told Joel that she used to have a friend that was good at it. Thanks for another awesome reaction Nat. You made it out the other side of this one 💛